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Very good movie until the end

posted 11 years ago by Hardline_Pro
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This film was a little hard to follow because a lot of the characters looked the same, but it was still very good. However, the ending was pretty bad.

Instead of calling the Robert Internal Affairs DeNiro and Malik Yoba (who I actually met on the set of a new Lifetime movie being filmed this year), Sylvester Stallone decides to risk escorting the #1 most wanted man in Cop Land...out of Cop Land. However things go awry when (surprise), he gets attacked by the T-1000 from Terminator 2, and some other goons who look like they used to be in Law & Order.

As a result, Sylvester Stallone becomes deaf and forgets what movie he is in. Thinking that he is filming Rambo, he wipes out a whole crew of corrupt cops with the help of Ray Liotta (Is this supposed to make up for him accidentally killing his GF in the fire?).

The movie then abruptly ends with news broadcast voiceovers telling us what happened. And Sylvester Stallone still doesn't get to bone the supermodel that he saved from a sinking car 20 years ago.

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[–] Bernnard_Black 10 years ago

Good points. I have a few thoughts on some of this.

1: He was told by Ray's wife that Ray had friends in IA, so he may not have trusted anyone to take super-boy to the city and felt he had to do it himself to make up for being a door mat for so long to these guys.

2: Yeah, the whole taking down all the baddies while deaf was a bit much. But, at least he was wounded a couple of times.

3: We don't really know what happened after the story between Freddy and Joey's wife. Kinda left open.

Here's to the health of Cardinal Puff.

[–] stones78 10 years ago

The fact that Freddy even bothered to tell Ray about taking the kid to NYC was a mistake and totally stupid.

[–] kmags84 10 years ago

He did bone that chic... "What are we doing Freddy?"... They make out, it fades to black, he banged her

[–] JohnGrant (94) 4 years ago

Also, telling Ray that he was taking Superboy to NYC at 6 a.m. wasn't the smartest move either.

[–] FootOfDavros (8173) 4 years ago

Come now. The switch to southpaw at the end is what makes this film!

[–] stones78 (426) 3 years ago

Superboy supposedly jumped in the river, yet Ray's having a party for him? Can someone explain why Ray does this, considering he's "dead"?

[–] Wuchak (8737) 3 months ago

I'm not sure if that cop party was for Babitch, but it struck me as curious that Ray would allow him to appear at it, obviously fully alive and for all there to see. I'm assuming the cops invited to the party were all in on the fact that 'Superboy' didn't really die in the river. In short, they were all part of Ray's tight clique, his cop family.

I take it as a commentary on the arrogance of the kingpin of Cop Land. The mayor had given an order to cease the investigation, so Ray was confident he had gotten away with the fake death.

[–] Wuchak (8737) 3 months ago

Thinking that he is filming Rambo, he wipes out a whole crew of corrupt cops with the help of Ray Liotta

This ties into Freddy's growing frustration throughout the film that he was a pushover, looked down upon by the cops from the Big City who lived in Garrison, not to mention being Ray's puppet (note how Ray always talks to him like he's a child). As such, he just blew up at the end after his good ear was violently assaulted by Jack Rucker.

[–] BKB (9916) 3 months ago

THAT'S you reasoning for not liking the ending because he didn't get to bone the supermodel?? This movie was Fantastic and was designed to showcase Stallone as an actor and not just Rambo or Rocky that he's typecast with forever and the Supporting Cast definitely aided this